He is most famous for his chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ).

Adam of Bremen's best-known work is the Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), which he began only after the death of the archbishop Adalbert.

* Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, online text.

No texts survive from this area, though the written text Vita Ansgari (" The life of Ansgar ") by Rimbert ( c. 865 ) describes the missionary work of Ansgar around 830 at Birka, and Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) by Adam of Bremen in 1075 describes the archbishop Unni, who died at Birka in 936.

In Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ), Adam of Bremen mentions Birka many times, and the book is the main source of information on the city.

Written around 1080, one of the oldest written sources on pre-Christian Scandinavian religious practices is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

It is dated between 917 ( Radboud's death ) and 1075, the year Adam of Bremen wrote his Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, which used the Vita tertia.

These pirates, which are called wichingi by their own people, and Ascomanni by our own people, pay tribute to the Danish king " in the fourth volume of his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum.

Scholars disagree about the various, too often contradictory, accounts of his life given in sources from his era of history, such as the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum, and the Heimskringla, a 13th-century work by Icelandic author Snorri Sturluson.

Adam of Bremen in Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum is unique in equating Cnut's mother ( for whom he also produces no name ) with the former queen of Sweden, wife of Eric the Victorious and by this marriage mother of Olof Skötkonung.

The oldest narrative source mentioning him briefly is Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( c. 1070 ).

* Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

Though Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by Adam of Bremen considers Hemming and Gudfred to be " patruelis ", paternal cousins.

Hemming also appears in an 810 entry of the Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by Adam of Bremen.

In the 11th century, chronicler Adam of Bremen records in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum that a statue of Thor, who Adam describes as " mightiest ", sits in the Temple at Uppsala in the center of a triple throne ( flanked by Woden and " Fricco ") located in Gamla Uppsala, Sweden.

Noteworthy also, is a story written down by Adam of Bremen in his Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) from 1075 / 6 about a certain foreigner called Hericus, who was slain and martyred while preaching among the Sueones.

Parallels have been pointed out between the description of Urðarbrunnr at the base of the world tree Yggdrasil and Christian medieval chronicler Adam of Bremen's account of a well at the base of a sacred tree at the Temple at Uppsala, Sweden, found in his 11th century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

The Temple at Uppsala was a religious center in Norse paganism once located at what is now Gamla Uppsala ( Swedish " Old Uppsala "), Sweden attested in Adam of Bremen's 11th century work Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum and in Heimskringla, written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century.

In: Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

The scholia of Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum mentions that it was the Polish king Boleslaw who gave the princess hand in marriage.

* A short piece from Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum

A more potential reference to Kvenland is Terra Feminarum (" Woman Land ") mentioned by Adam of Bremen in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum ( Deeds of Bishops of the Hamburg Church ) written in 1075 CE, a possible mistranslation of the name Kvenland.

Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

Anund Gårdske or Anund of Gårdarike, was the king of Sweden c. 1070 according to Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum.

For the Monumenta Germaniae historica he edited the Chronicon of Thietmar of Merseburg, the Gesta Hammenburgensis ecclesiae pontificum of Adam of Bremen and the Chronica Slavorum of Helmold, with its continuation by Arnold of Lübeck.

The first written mention of a bishop at Uppsala is from Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum that records in passing Adalvard the Younger appointed as the bishop for Sictunam et Ubsalam in the 1060s.

* Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum

In Adam of Bremen's Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, there is an account of how the king's son, Sweyn Forkbeard, raised a rebellion against him, forcing him to flee to Jomsborg.

In the earliest extant manuscripts it is referred to as Liber episcopalis in quo continentur acta beatorum pontificum Urbis Romae, and later the Gesta or Chronica pontificum.

William's first edition of the book was followed by the Gesta pontificum Anglorum ( Deeds of the English Bishops ) in 1125.

* William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum ( Deeds of the English Bishops ), Vol.

* William of Malmesbury: Gesta pontificum Anglorum ( Deeds of the English Bishops ), Vol.

There is no earlier specific mention of the cheese of the county, but the importance of Cheshire as one of the main dairy regions of England is already emphasised by William of Malmesbury in the Chester section of his Gesta pontificum Anglorum (" History of the bishops of England ": c. 1125 ).

Following Bede, versions of the Lucius story appeared in the 9th-century Historia Brittonum, and in 12th-century works such as William of Malmesbury's Gesta pontificum Anglorum and the Book of Llandaff.

The description of the Uppsala temple is one of the most famous excerpts of the Gesta, however as no archaeological site has ever been found, one can wonder if Adam ’ s description is linked to reality.

After its initial release in 1075 / 6, Gesta was complemented with supplementary Scholias until the death of Adam in the 1080s.

The only authority for this son's existence is Adam of Bremen, who in his Gesta ( c. 1070 ) claims to cite the otherwise unknown Gesta Anglorum for a remarkable anecdote about Hiring's foreign adventures: " Harald sent his son Hiring to England with an army.

Adam von Bremen recorded human sacrifices to Odin in 11th-century Sweden, at the Temple at Uppsala, a tradition which is confirmed by Gesta Danorum and the Norse sagas.

The later Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus made use of and expanded Adam of Bremen's account in his Gesta Danorum ( ca.

Soon thereafter he began to write the history of Bremen / Hamburg and of the northern lands in his Gesta.

Radegast, also Radigost, Redigast, Riedegost or Radogost, is mentioned by Adam of Bremen in his Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum as the deity worshipped in the Lutician city of Rethra.

* Adam of Bremen, Gesta Hammaburgensis Ecclesiae Pontificum.